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The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed
Author: Faith McNulty
The Burning Bed is a devastatingly powerful work about a hideously common American way of life-woman battering. Francine Hughes was a Judy who punched back, and her story is one to make a reader week, understand and never forget.
ISBN: 450510
Publication Date: 1980
Pages: 303
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Publisher: HBJ
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This book is a horrifyingly true story of Francine Hughes and the living hell she went through during and after her marriage to Mickey Hughes who was a sadistic wife beater. The outcome of the trial will make you want to jump up and cheer -- it's an example of good overcoming evil!
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Gripping true story of a woman, brutalized by her husband, who was forced to take the law into her own hands. Later made into a movie starring Farrah Fawcett


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